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=== TECHNICAL === • I was asked to implement JSON.Stringify. (ehem, ehem, creativity and novelty in the problem to ask!) • I finish that with unit tests in half an hour which later I found was working way better than all the version I could find online in random people's public github accounts. • The interviewer asked me to support recursive loops in Javascript. He didn't even have a working example and it was super-tricky to think about it -- an object having properties to point to the object itself to form a loop of "pointers" in Javascript! I modified my code to cover that too. I tested that and it worked perfect. • And guess what, the feedback (more than a week later) was that there are "some concerns about my Javascript" so they need to have a second phone interview. lol. I could only laugh! I just bailed out and canceled it. Enough is enough.
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Senior/Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Lyft

3.8★
Nov 29, 2017

=== TECHNICAL === • I was asked to implement JSON.Stringify. (ehem, ehem, creativity and novelty in the problem to ask!) • I finish that with unit tests in half an hour which later I found was working way better than all the version I could find online in random people's public github accounts. • The interviewer asked me to support recursive loops in Javascript. He didn't even have a working example and it was super-tricky to think about it -- an object having properties to point to the object itself to form a loop of "pointers" in Javascript! I modified my code to cover that too. I tested that and it worked perfect. • And guess what, the feedback (more than a week later) was that there are "some concerns about my Javascript" so they need to have a second phone interview. lol. I could only laugh! I just bailed out and canceled it. Enough is enough.

Everything you need to review has already been discussed in Glassdoor and Leetcode forums at length. The nice thing about the problems is they are all relevant to the problem space that Gusto sits in, so it isn't just whiteboarding for whiteboarding's sake.
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Staff Software Engineer

Interviewed at Gusto

3.1★
Sep 16, 2024

Everything you need to review has already been discussed in Glassdoor and Leetcode forums at length. The nice thing about the problems is they are all relevant to the problem space that Gusto sits in, so it isn't just whiteboarding for whiteboarding's sake.

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